Wednesday, July 27, 2016

North Korean border patrol guards in some areas of
Ryanggang Province are busy searching for and capturing an unseasonably high
number of snakes at the behest of the authorities, who claim Seoul’s spy agency
deliberately released them in the region.

“From early this month, border patrol units received
orders to capture snakes before they crawl over the banks of Amnok [Yalu]
River,” a source from Ryanggang Province told Daily NK in a recent telephone
conversation. “The key message from the Party was that the South’s National
Intelligence Service had released snakes as part of a ‘cunning scheme’ to
challenge our unity.” […]

[S]tate propaganda proclaimed in the past that the
excessive number of stick insects pervading corn fields was due to U.S.
imperialist scheming. […]

Well-known in Colombia, scopolamine is now being used
in robberies and sexual assault in Spain

Iñigo Domínguez

[…] Last year, some Madrid hospitals […] reported
surprising cases of elderly people who were disoriented and had been robbed,
yet had no recollection of recent events. Medical experts consulted by this
newspaper said they suspect the intoxication may have occurred through the
skin, by picking up scopolamine-treated leaflets handed out on the street. […]
Skin intoxication, however, is a controversial issue that not all experts
believe in.”